Pharmacists can't prescribe medicines: HC

Lucknow: The High Court has restrained pharmacists from prescribing medicines in hospitals in absence of doctors. It is a hazardous proposition and is directly against the interest of public at large, held a bench of Justice A P Sahi and Justice A R Masoodi.

The court said pharmacists have no right to practise medicine like doctors and are only there to dispense prescription by a practitioner. The court accepted the argument of additional chief standing counsel Abdul Moin that under Pharmacy Practice Regulations framed in 2015, pharmacists can only dispense and implement the prescription of the doctor.

Filing a writ petition, some pharmacists had demanded for authority to prescribe medicines in the absence of doctors, pleading their shortage in hospitals. tnn

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